Siege Perilous

hen Pete opened his eyes, he looked around in the world with astonishment. Everybody around him was dressed in cheap simple clothing, and everybody looked mysteriously young. He asked around, and folks told him to train his fighting abilities in one of the training halls of Vesper. The fighting halls were overly crowded, and while Pete was swinging his fists against the training dummy, a strange person in a red robe appeared. He said strange warnings about "unattended macroing" on Siege Perilous. Hardly anybody answered, and some laughed. Pete laughed too, and asked the God what "macroing" meant, just before the red person disappeared wordlessly. This world was going to be fun!

After a short while Pete was tired of hitting the dummy repeatedly, and decided to walk out into the woods, looking for other people. A blue shining moongate seemed to be kind of an attraction, as many fighters were gathered around it. Pete bravely stepped into it, and suddenly found himself someplace else. Anyway, he didn't care where he was, but he was slowly getting hungry. He looked around, and saw a goat gnawing stupidly on the same leaf for hours. He grabbed his smithing hammer, and approached the animal from behind. He swung and .... he missed! Instead the goat decided not to run away, but to bite his legs. Pete cried, and after the third bite he sank to the ground and his view grayed.

This world was more dangerous than he had expected! After returning from a friendly healer, he walked through the safe gate of Trinsic, deciding to treat the training dummy once more, this time with a little more persistence...

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